No Monkeys, No Chocolate

10 best books like No Monkeys, No Chocolate (Melissa Stewart): Mommy's Khimar, Alma and How She Got Her Name, Last Stop on Market Street, City Dog, Country Frog, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands, Grand Canyon, Giant Squid, Library Lily

Mommy's Khimar

Author	Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
ISBN	1534400591

Selected as a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness!

A young Muslim girl spends a busy day wrapped up in her mother’s colorful headscarf in this sweet and fanciful picture book from debut author and illustrator Jamilah Tompkins-Bigelow and...

Alma and How She Got Her Name

Author	Juana Martinez-Neal
ISBN	0763693553

What's in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from — and who she may one day be.

If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for...

Last Stop on Market Street

Author	Matt de la Pena
ISBN	0399257748

Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the...

City Dog, Country Frog

Author	Mo Willems
ISBN	1423103009

In spring, when City Dog runs free in the country for the first time, he spots Country Frog sitting on a rock, waiting for a friend. "You'll do," Frog says, and together they play Country Frog games. In summer, they meet again and play City Dog games. Through the seasons, whenever City Dog visits the...

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Author	Lindsay Mattick
ISBN	0316324906

Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg,...

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Author	Derrick Barnes
ISBN	1572842245

The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes draped around their shoulders, a dab of cool shaving cream on their foreheads, and a slow, steady cut, they become royalty. That crisp yet subtle line makes boys sharper, more visible, more aware of every great...

Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

Author	Katherine Roy
ISBN	1596438746

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just thirty miles from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge!

A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants...

Grand Canyon

Author	Jason Chin
ISBN	1596439505

Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon.

Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...

Giant Squid

Author	Candace Fleming
ISBN	1596435992

The giant squid is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. As large as whales, they hide beyond reach deep within the sea, forcing scientists to piece together their story from those clues they leave behind.

An injured whale's ring-shaped scars indicate an encounter with a giant squid....

Library Lily

Author

Gillian Shields

Lily loves to read. She is fascinated by the stories in her books, and reads wherever she goes—through summer, autumn, winter, and spring. But one day, Lily meets a girl who hates reading. Milly invites Lily to have adventures of her own—outside the pages of a book. Together the two friends help each...

After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again

Author	Dan Santat
ISBN	1626726825

My name is Humpty Dumpty.
I'm famous for falling off a wall.

(You may have heard about it.)

But that's only half the story...
Because I decided to get back up.
And when I did, something amazing happened.

This story is about my life...
AFTER THE FALL.

Inspiring...

The Journey

Author	Francesca Sanna
ISBN	1909263990

With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.

From...

Pandora

Author	Victoria Turnbull
ISBN	0544947339

Pandora lives alone, in a world of broken things. She makes herself a handsome home, but no one ever comes to visit. Then one day something falls from the sky 
. . . a bird with a broken wing. 
     Little by little, Pandora helps the bird grow stronger. Little by little, the bird helps Pandora...